Cooking vessel



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E.. W. GOODRICK COOKING VESSEL Filed Aug. '7, 1922 Patented July 1', 1924.

oNlTEo- STATES.

W. GOODRIOK, F BUFFALO, N'EW YORK.

COOKING Application led August 7, 1922. Serial No. 580,047.

'To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWARD W. GooDRIoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cookin Vessels, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to cooking boilers or cookers of the type generally adapted for household, hotel or restaurant use and of the so-called double boiler type, wherein the food or material to be cooked is contained in an inner container or compartment which is insulated from the radiant heat of the fire. The objects of the present invention are to provide a cooking boiler in which material may be cooked uniformly throughout with a minimum consumption of fuel; also to provide a cooking boiler which will maintain the cooked material in a heated condition for a relatively long time after the heat applied to the boiler'is discontinued, and also to provide other improvements in cooking boilers or vessels in the other respects hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: vFig. 1 is a vertical section of a boiler embodymg the invention.

thereof, on'an `en1arged Scale.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a portion thereof on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 ,is a plan view of the inner container thereof. as

. the inner container.

The cooker of the present inventionincludes an outer vessel or pan constructed of suitable metal or the like, and which may be of any desired shape or form, and an inner container which is adapted to hold the material to be cooked and which is suspended in the outer vessel and is preferably -of such design and constructed of suitable material so that it may be removed from the outer4 vessel when the material has been cooked and placed in a suitable stand Ior the like, whereby the material may be served therefrom. v.

In the drawings, 10 designates the outer vessel or pan and 11 the inner container which is adapted to hold the food or ma- Fig. 2 is a vertical section 'of a portionA Fig. 5 is a bottom plan :view of the lid for terialto be cooked. When in use, the outer vessel is partly filled 4with water or other liquid, and the `inner container is so suspended in the outer vessel that when the water in the outer vessel is heated 'and the steam generated in the vessel or pan attains a certain pressure, some of the steam is permitted to pass over to the top or upper side of the inner container whereby the entire outer surface and top of the inner container is surrounded by boiling liquid or steam. This suspension of the innei container in the outer vessel is preferably accomplished by providing a supporting part or member between t-he outer vessel and the inner conrubber or other suitable material, rests in a depression or groove 13 in the outer vessel and is adapted to engage a shoulder 14 formed on the inner container, whereby the inner container is supported thereon. It is obvious that this ring may be attached in other ways, or may be composedof material other than the resilient material referred to. The use of a ring of rubber or other resilient material is preferred for the reason that after the vessel is removed fromthe fire, or heating of the vessel has been discontinued, the steam pressure in the vessel lowers and the steam in the lupper part of the vessel condenses. As soon'as the steam pressure lowers, the inner container, which has been liftedslightly by the steam under pressure,

resumes its seat on the ring 12 and by reason of the resilient character of that ring, a firm seal is effected between the inner container and the ring or seat 12. As the steam pressure in the vessel lowers, a partial vacuum is created rin the space in the vessel'which is not occupedvby the`liquid, thereby insulating the sides of the inner conta1n(er so that --eff food or other material in the container will retain its heat for a'relatively long' period.

The resilient ring or support v12 provides a cushion suspension or support for the inner container and prevents the inner container, which is preferably constructed of glass, porcelain or other frangible material, from being broken or damaged as the container is placed in the vessel or removed therefrom, or when the vessel is moved from place to place with the container therein.

The inner container is preferably pro# vided with a lid so attached that the inner container may be lifted out of the vessel by the lid. In the preferred form illustrated, this is accomplished by providing-suitable notches or recesses 15 in the upper flange or v 16 of the container and providing a lid having a flange 18 adapted to overlie flange 16 of the container, and tongues 19 projecting from its bottom at the sides thereof and spaced apart from its liange 18, which tongues areadapted to enter the recesses and upon t'urning'of the lid to engage beneath the unrecessed portions of the flange. The llid is also preferably provided with a handle 20 whereby the inner container may be readily lifted bythe handle and upon turning the lid 17- until the tongues 19 again register with the notches 15, the lid maybe yreadily removed.

The vessel 10 is preferably provided with a e cover 21, provided with a handle 22, and

preferably adapted to t within themouth of the vessel. There are provided means for releasably sealing the cover to the mouth of the vessel in such manner that the cover normally closes the mouth of the vessel but permits of the escape of. some steam when excessive. steam pressure is generated in the vessel. This is preferably accomplished by Ainserting a resilient gasket'or the like between the cover and the walls of the vessel mouth; In the embodiment of the invention illustrated, the cover 21 is provided with a resilient gasket or the like 23, which restson a suitable shoulder or flange 24 of the cover and which engages the inner sides of the mouthy of the` vessel when the cover lis in position therein to normally prevent the escape of Steam fromfthe mouth of the vessel but by reason, of its resilient character to permit of the escape ofsome of the steam in case excessive steam pressure is generated 'in the vessel, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The

gasket 23 is preferably provided with an upwardly extending reduced annular iiange or tongue 25 a'nd an inclined outer edge26 whereby there is provided between the gasket and the mouthA of' the vessel a recess 27, which with/the' tongue 25 ensures that excessive pressure in the vessel will be relieved. The

Vresilient supportpfor the -frangible inner c ontainer facilitates the passage of steam from the lower part of the vessel 1() to the upper part of the vessel and over and around the lid of the inner container, whereby steam or boiling water contacts with the entire outer surface of the inner container and lid when suiiicient steam pressure has been generated in the vessel andalso prevents breakage of or damage to the inner container when the vessel or the container is being handled. In addition, by reason of the firm seating of the inner container on the resilient support or ring when steam pressure falls in the vessel, air which has been forced out of the vessel by the steam while thel device is being heated is not replaced and a partial vacuum is created in the vessel at the sides of the container and at the upper side of the inner container by the sealing action of. the vessel cover which permits of the contents of the inner containerbeing maintained in a heated condition or .being partially cooked without the use of fuel, once suiiicient steam pressure has been generated in the vessel.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a cooker, the combination of an outer vessel adapted to contain a liquid to be heated, a cover onsaid vessel, an inner container in said vessel and adapted-to contain material to be cooked, a lid on said inner container, the sides and lid of said inner container being spaced apart from the sides and cover 'of said vessel, means at the sides of 'said container for permitting'the escape of air and steam under pressure over said container lid when steam under pressure is generated in said vessel,.means between said vessel' cover and the mouth of said vessel for automatically permitting the escape of air and steam under pressure passing over said container lid when the steam attains a predetermined pressure, said tirst-named means sealing the space between the sides of said container and said vessel and preventing the re-entry of air therein when steam pressure in said vessel is lowered, and said secondnamed means automatically sealing said cover to said vessel and preventing the reentry of air into the space between said cover and said container lid when the steam pres-v sure is. lowered.

2,. In a cooker, the combination of an outer vessel adapted to contain liquid to be heated, an inner container in said vessel and adapted to contain material to be cooked, a resilient supporting and releasable sealing ring between the' sides of said container and the iny ner'sidesof said vessel, a cover on said vessel, and automatically releasable sealing means between said cover and said vessel.

3. In a cooker, the combination of an outel` .vessel adapted to containliquid to be heated, a cover for sald vessel, an inner container suspended in said outer vesse14,j'a lid for said container, a steam space Vbetween saidcontainer lid and the cover of said vessel, means between ,said container andv said `vessel for permitting steam to pass from said Vessel to said vessel as the pressure of steam in said said steam space when steam is generated to vessel and steam space rises and for autoa predetermined pressure in said vessel and matically sealing the cover to said vessel to 10 forsealing said container to said vessel when prevent the entry of air into said vessel 5 the steam pressure lowers, and lmeans bewhen the steam pressure in said vessel lowers.

tween said cover and the vessel for automatically permitting steam to escape from EDWARD W. GOODRICK. 

